1800 – John Adams became the first U.S. president to move to Washington, D.C. The People’s House, or the Executive Mansion, later known as the White House, wasn’t completed until November of that year, so Adams lived at Tunnicliffe’s City Hotel.
1808 – Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (1861 – 1865) was born in Christian County, KY.
1856 – Cullen Whipple of Providence, RI, patented the screw machine.
1956 – Santa Cruz, CA, became the first city in the U.S. to ban rock n’ roll.
1959 – The Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO, graduated its first class.
1965 – Major Edward H. White became the first American to walk in space, when he exited the Gemini 4 spacecraft 120 miles above Earth.
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